Is my venus fly trap dying?
hope4greenthumb
17 years ago
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Is my Venus fly trap not eating?
Comments (2)What happened is that you dropped a dead bug. The bug did trigger the trap to close over it but it didn't do anything else to indicate to the trap it caught something. It is the stimuli of the bug moving inside the trap that educes the trap. to go into the the digestive phase. When the bugs moves inside the closed trap, it keeps on brushing against the trigger hair. The trigger hair isn't just only the cause the trap to close. It also send single to the trap that it had captured a live digestible prey. That's what allows a trap to distinguish between a live nutritious prey from inanimate debris. That way the trap doesn't expand needlessly digesting debris with no nutritional value. That's why your trapped opened again, there was no further stimuli from the dead bugs because they weren't moving, so the trap had no reason to stay close & digest it. It opened up again....See MoreVenus Fly Trap Dying?
Comments (1)Sit the pot in a tray with about an inch of that water in it. I use 50/50 mix of peat moss and perlite. NOT Miracle grow Perlite, they put fertilizer in their stuff (Witch I HATE). Do you have a photo of the whole plant you could post? Is the plant OUTSIDE?...See MoreTrying to Get My Venus Fly Trap To Go Dormant
Comments (3)They don't actually just eat flies. There may be many other bugs that it catches, which you probably didn't notice. The other side of that is that I don't know how sensitive their bait is (the smell of something that attracts bugs). It's not like you'll see a bunch of flies or bugs milling around the VFTs because of some attracting odor. You can force a dormant period using your fridge, or what I have found from various other readings, is that the VFTs dormant state is a plant which still shows some leaves and traps, but they are low to the ground. In that condition, it is still green and catching bugs, but it is dormant because it is not so actively growing as it would be in warmer temperature seasons. In other words, the VFT did not lose all leaves and only look like a root ball with no stalks or no leaves....See MoreIs my Venus Fly Trap dead?
Comments (3)The steam from the the hot water won't kill your plant, sound like your friend triggered the traps. Another thing, if you used water from the compost to water your Venus flytrap, I suggest you change the soil immediately, the rich nitrogen will contaminate the growing media & will kill the plant. I suggest you by long fiber sphagnum moss, or use the true & tried mixture of 50/50. half part perlite & half part sphagnum peat moss, make sure the perlite & sphagnum peat moss hasn't been fortified with fertilizer or wetting agents; read the labels. Use distilled water, or 2nd choice if that's not available, reversed osmosis (R/O) water. One more thing, triggering the traps will eventually kill your plant. Th act of closing wastes a lot of reserved energy stored in the plant. The plant can easily tolerate one or two traps closed with no prey in them. But doing it too much will exhaust your plant, stressing your plant & eventually making susceptible to fungus infection. This could result into a smaller weaker plant, or at worse it may die. People have done everything right to grow their plant but the end up killing by triggering the traps frequently,...See Morehope4greenthumb
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